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Anyone looking to invest in a fabulous new watch this fall would be hard pressed to avoid the deluge of rose-gold styles hitting stores. Like most trends, rose gold's ubiquity happened suddenly and without apparent reason. Historically, the pinkish gold has played second fiddle to more popular classic yellow and white golds. But when the world's finest watchmakers unveiled their new collections earlier this year, it became evident that it was time for a color change. Breitling, Zenith, Cartier and Patek Philippe have all introduced chic new timepieces in the rosy hue, usually paired with chocolate-brown...
...told me that I needed to repent, that I was not living up to my vows, I was not being obedient, I was not being submissive, and that was what my problem was," she said. She stayed married for more than three years--ultimately sleeping in a truck to avoid her husband--before she left to marry another man, whose child she was already carrying...
...corporate-minded, Kilpatrick seems to be a bit of a throwback. He became mayor in 2002 at age 31, the youngest mayor in the city's history. Cultural icon Russell Simmons crowned him the nation's first "hip-hop mayor" and Kilpatrick, now 37, did not try to avoid a life of excess. His first inauguration was marked with "club crawls" (he said they were intended to galvanize Detroit's disaffected youth); he wore a diamond-studded earring and flashy suits; his wife got use of a Lincoln Navigator that was leased for $25,000 by the police department...
...outside of the lens, Galanter argued Simpson hadn't grabbed the glasses off the man's face, but instead touched the lens when he put his hands up to keep the other man from coming after him. That clever line of reasoning may have helped Simpson avoid jail time...
...Erdogan has a personal stake in the matter. He sent his own daughters to study in the U.S. in order to avoid the ban. In an interview in the Financial Times this week, he said: "The right to a higher education cannot be restricted because of what a girl wears. There is no such problem in Western societies. I believe it is the first duty of those in politics to solve this problem." Altinay, at the Open Society, cautioned that Erdogan would be wise to try to convince secularists about need for the changes and not use his majority carelessly...